Tocqueville and the Two Democracies

Jean-Claude Lamberti

Translated by Arthur Goldhammer

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$90.50 • £72.95 • €81.50

ISBN 9780674894358

Publication Date: 02/20/1989

Short

323 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

World

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POLITICAL SCIENCE: General

“A profound and thoughtful reading of Democracy in America that examines the way in which Tocqueville saw the relationship between ‘the two democracies’: the French and American, that is, the revolutionary and the liberal.”—Stanley Hoffmann, Harvard University

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